Go to Post Incidentally, this is a good example of why lawyering the FIRST rules is good practice for the real world. By critically analyzing FIRST's errors, you practice for the day when you need to critically analyze legislators' errors (and deliberate trickery). - Tristan Lall [more]
Home
Go Back   Chief Delphi > FIRST > General Forum
CD-Media   CD-Spy  
portal register members calendar search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read FAQ rules

 
 
 
Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #22   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 25-09-2001, 17:16
Joe Ross's Avatar Unsung FIRST Hero
Joe Ross Joe Ross is offline
Registered User
FRC #0330 (Beachbots)
Team Role: Engineer
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Rookie Year: 1997
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 8,604
Joe Ross has a reputation beyond reputeJoe Ross has a reputation beyond reputeJoe Ross has a reputation beyond reputeJoe Ross has a reputation beyond reputeJoe Ross has a reputation beyond reputeJoe Ross has a reputation beyond reputeJoe Ross has a reputation beyond reputeJoe Ross has a reputation beyond reputeJoe Ross has a reputation beyond reputeJoe Ross has a reputation beyond reputeJoe Ross has a reputation beyond repute
Quote:
Originally posted by tjrage_25


I agree that the good teams will, in the end, get to the nationals. However, FIRST is going to give a first come/first serve opprotuntiy to some teams, it should be given to ALL teams.
I am quite glad that they didn't.

Right now, it seems that there are about 60 teams that have already qualified for nationals. Assuming that the game is 2 v 2 this year, there will be 34 regional winners, 17 regional chairman's awards winners, and an 68 technical award winners. After duplicates are removed, that will be somewhere in the range of 100 teams.

There are 288 spots - 100 who qualify this year - 60 who qualified based on previous years + an unknown number for more duplicates. This means that there are anywhere between 100-150 spots availibile first-come first serve. Last year there were 500 something teams. Add the 40 % growth rate and there will be 700 teams this coming year. Having all of those teams vying for a hundred spots is not a good thing. By making sure that only half the teams can try to get into nationals this year, FIRST has doubled the chance that you will actually get a spot.
Reply With Quote
 


Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Operator Interface Heads Up Madison Robotics Education and Curriculum 6 11-12-2002 06:59


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 05:10.

The Chief Delphi Forums are sponsored by Innovation First International, Inc.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2017, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © Chief Delphi